Restaurant review: Yew Tree Restaurant, Muckross Park Hotel & Spa, Killarney

This is the best hotel food I’ve eaten in many a long moon, says Joe McNamee.

I HAVE never subscribed to the notion that the ability to turn a buck is the pinnacle of human achievement nor will I ever fathom the modern veneration of entrepreneurs as new renaissance beings but I always made an exception for salesman extraordinaire Bill Cullen.

Actually, it was ‘Dr Bill’ I adored, Cullen’s alter ego as portrayed by broadcaster Tom Dunne, an inspired satirical surrealism that eventually led me to conflate factual character with fictional, where even the mawkish treacle of Cullen’s It’s a Long Way from Penny Apples autobiography could be rendered as giddy blossom-filled honey, if imagined as being read in the voice of Dr Bill.